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Interested in personal or employee development? Whether you are an IT professional or IT manager, Microsoft Learning Partners offer options to increase your skill base. Learn more below or learn how to become a Learning Partner.

Learn a new technology. With just one course, you can develop practical skills that cover the technology
adoption life cycle—from planning to support. And you gain a level of proficiency that can only be taught through hands-on
labs, simulations, and the real-world application of skills.

Prepare for certification.Microsoft Certifications are available for core Microsoft technologies and skill levels. Microsoft Official Courses are built with
Microsoft Certification in mind and are taught by qualified industry instructors.

Start a new career. The industry instructors who teach Microsoft Official Courses can help you gain
IT skills that directly transfer from the classroom to the workplace. Courses offer access to valuable digital resources,
which remain available to you long after you complete a course.

Professionals who took IT or business-related training during the past year earned an average of nearly $3,400 more than
those who did not. (Global Knowledge,
IT Skills and Salary Survey, March 2011)

Improve efficiency and productivity. Microsoft Learning Partners can help you get the most out of your
organization’s technology investment. Your employees can add to their proficiency with Microsoft technologies from classroom
training or Microsoft Official Courses On-Demand.

Prepare for deployment. Skilled training available through Microsoft Learning Partners helps companies
accelerate new Microsoft technology deployments and can reduce downtime. Research shows that 40 percent of operational
downtime is due to operator error, attributable to a significant lack of training on core systems. (Anderson, Cushing.
"Impact of Training on Network Administration: Certification Leads to Operational Productivity." IDC study.
As reported by Linda Musthaler in Network World, November 25, 2009)

Employee development, recruiting, and retention. Training and certification are effective methods for
measuring how well team members can work with specific technologies, hardware, and software.

Sixty percent of technology executive respondents say that one of the biggest challenges in planning large IT infrastructure
projects is the availability of professionals with the necessary competencies when needed. (TEKsystems/CIO Custom Solutions
Group,
IT Workforce Planning Trends, June 2011)

Whether you deliver training to your customers as one of your core services or as your entire business practice, attaining
the certification competency can open new opportunities for your business. Microsoft Partner Network benefits can help
you save time and money while you strengthen your capabilities, better serve customers, and build connections to reach
your full business potential.